Voting now open for 2010 Open Source Awards

The nomination stage is now closed and voting has begun in the 2010 Open Source Awards.

Your vote could reward an open source project with cash awards (I know the developers will appreciate that!) Registering to vote will require your name and email, and it's a single button click to cast your vote.

Here are the finalists, in categories:

Open Source CMS Award

Every Content Management System (CMS) that is based on one of the Open Source licenses is eligible to participate for this category. Vote for your favorite Open Source CMS here.

Finalists:

• CMS Made Simple
• MODx
• mojoPortal
• SilverStripe
• XOOPS

Hall of Fame CMS

This category is reserved for those CMSes that have won the Overall Open Source CMS Award at least once in the past. Since the launch of the award in 2006, only Joomla!, Drupal and WordPress have won the Overall Open Source CMS Award, therefore, this category will feature only those three participants in 2010. Vote for your favorite Hall of Fame CMS here.

Finalists

• Drupal
• Joomla!
• WordPress

Most Promising Open Source Project

This category is for all Open Source projects, whose first release date is less than two years from 9 August, 2010. Vote for your favorite Most Promising Open Source Project here.

Finalists

• BuddyPress
• LiveStreet CMS
• Pimcore
• Tomato CMS
• WolfCMS

Open Source E-Commerce Applications

This category is reserved for the type of web applications that simplify buying and selling of products on the Internet. This will include complete e-commerce applications or frameworks designed for e-commerce. E-commerce modules or extensions to other systems can also be nominated. If a system is general purpose (like a CMS such as Drupal or Joomla!) the specific e-commerce functionality should be nominated, not the base system.Vote for your favorite Open Source E-Commerce Applications here.

Finalists

• Magento
• nopCommerce
• OpenCart
• PrestaShop
• Tomatocart

Open Source JavaScript Libraries

This category is reserved for JavaScript libraries, libraries of pre-written JavaScript controls which allow for easier development of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), visually enhanced applications or smoother server-side JavaScript functionalities.Vote for your favorite Open Source JavaScript Libraries here.

Finalists

• Dojo ToolKit
• Ext JS
• jQuery
• Mootools
• Raphaël

Open Source Graphics Software

This category, as the name suggests, is for all Graphic Application Software that is used for graphic design, multimedia development, specialized image development, general image editing, or simply to access graphic files. It can also include graphics libraries, which use command line references or programming language inputs to design or edit graphics.Vote for your favorite Open Source Graphics Software here.

Finalists

• Blender
• Gimp
• InkScape
• jMonkeyEngine
• Scribus

Happy Voting!

2010 Open Source Awards now open

Do you have a favorite open source project? Would you like to thank an open source provider in a tangible way? How about nominating them for the 2010 Open Source Awards, a contest put on by Packt Publishing that offers US $24K in cash awards?

Nominations are accepted this year for the following categories: Content Management Systems, E-Commerce Applications, Graphics Software, and JavaScript Libraries. On a side note, nominators are entered into a drawing for a free Kindle, so maybe your kindness will be rewarded as well.

Happy Voting, and to ALL the open source coders-- Thanks!

Rick

P.S. For those interested, I'll include the Packt Press Release in it's entirety:

Packt launch fifth annual Open Source Awards

Birmingham, UK. 9^th August 2010

The 2010 Open Source Awards was launched today by Packt, inviting people to visit www.PacktPub.com and submit nominations for their favorite Open Source project. Now in its fifth year, the Award has been adapted from the established Open Source CMS Award with the wider aim of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding all Open Source projects.

WordPress won the 2009 Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award in what was a very close contest with MODx and SilverStripe. While MODx was the first runner up, SilverStripe, a Most Promising CMS Award winner in 2008, made its way to the second runner up position in its first year in the Open Source CMS Award final.

The 2010 Award will feature a prize fund of $24,000 with several new categories introduced. While the Open Source CMS Award category will continue to recognize the best content management system, Packt is introducing categories for the Most Promising Open Source Project, Open Source E-Commerce Applications, Open Source JavaScript Libraries and Open Source Graphics Software. CMSes that won the Overall CMS Award in previous years will continue to compete against one another in the Hall of Fame CMS category.

These new categories will ensure that the Open Source Awards is the ultimate platform to recognise excellence within the community while supporting projects both new and old. “We believe that the adaption of the Award and the new categories will provide a new level of accessibility, with the Award recognizing a wider range of Open Source projects; both previous winners while at the same time, encouraging new projects” said Julian Copes, organizer of this year’s Awards.

Packt has opened up nominations for people to submit their favorite Open Source projects for each category at www.PacktPub.com/open-source-awards-home . The top five in each category will go through to the final, which begins in the last week of September. For more information on the categories, please visit Packt’s website www.PacktPub.com/blog/packt’s-2010-open-source-awards-announcement

Contacts

Julian Copes

PR Executive, Packt Publishing

julianc@packtpub.com | www.PacktPub.com

About Packt

Packt is a modern, unique publishing company with a focus on producing cutting-edge books for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike.

Packt’s books and publications share the experiences of fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today's systems, applications, and frameworks. Their solutions-based books give readers the knowledge and power to customize the software and technologies they’re using to get the job done.

For more information, please visit www.PacktPub.com